You might have noticed we’ve changed things up a bit here in the last few months. With the introduction of TheDirectTransfer.com, we’ve been a bit duplicative in our posting of the Other Side of the Tracks newsletter here and at TheDirectTransfer.com. Starting Monday, June 24, we will cease posting content from the daily Other Side of the Tracks email newsletter here.

"A city is first and foremost a social reactor. It works like a star, attracting people and accelerating social interaction and social outputs in a way that is analogous to how stars compress matter and burn brighter and faster the bigger they are."

URBAN ISSUESHow Can Affordable Housing Survive in California
San Diego Union Tribune
The future of affordable housing in California has looked bleak with reduced funding from the federal government and the elimination of redevelopment agencies, a major funding source for such development in the state.

URBANISM & DESIGNIs All This New Ohio City Development Good?
Cleveland Scene
Come Saturday, Ohio City will be bedlam, as it is most Saturdays. The intersection of West 25th and Lorain will be endlessly logjammed as the suburban tourists descend upon the West Side Market with their bags and their strollers and all the force and rancor of the Uruk-hai.

Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's New Media Director and Chief Cartographer, collects news stories and blog posts about transit and transit-oriented development from around the country and posts them at TheDirectTransfer.com. Jeff then takes the top 10 articles in each of five categories and sends that out as Other Side of the Tracks email newsletter. The content of that email is then posted here.